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PLURIVERSAL, BEWILDERED, AND OTHERWISE
Sigil Collective—Monuments of the Everyday: Condemned to Hope
Tuesday, October 26
315F and Zoom | 12:00 PM
Sigil is a collective based in Beirut, Marrakech, and New York City. It was founded in 2014 by Salim al-Kadi, Khaled Malas, Alfred Tarazi and Jana Traboulsi. Along with multiple interlocutors and associates, many primarily based in Syria, Sigil has produced a series of representational and site-specific interventions titled ‘monuments of the everyday’. These projects seek to explore the marvellous and terrifying metamorphoses of the Arab landscape marked by historical and contemporary struggles. Sigil’s projects embark on committed inquiries regarding the relations between radical built gestures, the role of narrative in design, and attempts to challenge ongoing violence by evoking transmutational hope. This work has been widely exhibited, published, and collected. Recent commissions include those at the 2019 Milano Design Triennale and the 2019 Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans.
Khaled Malas (architect and art historian) and Salim al-Kadi (architect) will present recent works followed by a discussion moderated by Nora Akawi.
The in-person lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff in room 315F. This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Registration is required, please register in advance here.
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VISITING LECTURE
Fabio Gramazio: Digital Materiality
Tuesday, November 2
315F and Zoom | 6:30 PM
Fabio Gramazio will present a lecture presenting research that examines the changes in architectural production requirements that result from introducing digital manufacturing techniques. Our special interest lies in combining data and material and the resulting implications this has on the architectural design. The possibility of directly fabricating building components described on the computer expands not only the spectrum of possibilities for construction, but, by the direct implementation of material and production logic into the design process, it establishes a unique architectural expression and a new aesthetic.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion moderated by Benjamin Aranda.
The in-person lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff in room 315F. This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Registration is required, please register in advance here.
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CURRENT WORK
Anne Lacaton, Jean-Phillippe Vassal, Frédéric Druot
Wednesday, November 10
The Great Hall and Zoom | 7:00 PM
This fall and early winter, Current Work spotlights influential and innovative design practices that bring widely varying perspectives to contemporary housing challenges.
Over decades, the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal have collaborated on design and research projects with their long-time friend Frédéric Druot. Together, they have redefined the possibilities of social housing, sustainability, and community agency.
Lacaton, Vassal, and Druot have partnered on several landmark housing projects, guided by the commitment: “never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!” Simultaneously sparing and transformative, their work adapts existing structures to meet the needs of contemporary urban communities.
This lecture is the 2021 annual Ratensky Lecture, organized by the AIANY Housing Committee to honor individuals who have made significant lifetime contributions to the advancement of housing and community design. This event is co-presented by the AIANY Housing Committee, The Architectural League of New York and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.
This event will be conducted in-person and through Zoom. All participants— both in-person and online— must register in advance, please register here.
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THE IRWIN S. CHANIN DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR LECTURE
Diana Agrest: The Wall and the Books
Thursday, November 11
The Rose Auditorium and Zoom | 6:30 PM
Diana Agrest will present selected work that define significant moments in the development of her practice in connection to her critical work on urban and architectural discourse, illustrating the determinant role of urban form and culture on architecture through work ranging from urban project to the architecture object itself. Rather than in a chronological order the work presented will be organized through concepts focusing on questions of urban form its articulation with the social, political and ideological aspects both in discourse and the actual social context linking the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. The determinant role of urban form and culture on architecture will be illustrated through urban projects to the architecture object itself.
Diana Agrest, FAIA is an internationally renowned architect, theoretician, author, educator and filmmaker. She is well known for her unique and pioneering critical approach to architecture and urbanism practice and theory She is a founding partner of Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects. Her designed and built projects ranging globally from urban projects, housing complexes and master plans to single family residences and interiors have received numerous awards.
In-Person Registration: Advanced registration is required. Please register for in-person attendance here.
Virtual Registration: The lecture is also accessible through Zoom. Advanced registration is required, please register for virtual attendance here.
This event is free and accessible to the public.
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VIDEO ARCHIVE
Watch Our Public Lectures and Events Anytime
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The School of Architecture records, archives and publishes videos of public programs to open access and accommodate asynchronous learning and research for audiences in different time zones. You may visit our Vimeo channel for access to all our video content.
You may also use Cooper website's search bar to look for a particular lecture title or a lecturer's name to find embedded videos of their events with us, if any are available, along with other pertinent event and bio information.
If you recently missed a lecture or event you wanted to see, make sure to check out the Fall 2020 and the Spring 2021 Lecture and Events Lists. Links to earlier semester event lists are found at the bottom of their respective event pages.
Our public programs are free and recorded for access anytime.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Coronavirus Response
For campus-wide COVID-19 updates and resources, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
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Lydia Kallipoliti, Arch fac | Lecture | "Bodily Encounters; New Proxemics; Reflections on Radical Shifts in our Socio-Spatial Behavior," Salon Suisse 2021, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, October 22, 2021
David Gersten AR’91/Arch fac | Lecture | Architectonics of Curiosity, CUHK Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 15, 2021, Zoom
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Erieta Attali, Arch fac | Exhibition | LIMINA, Schnitzer&, October 8-November 18, 2021, Munich, Germany
Michael Samuelian AR’95/Arch fac | Article | "Cornell Tech, Google and Tech: NYC launch NYC startup competition," NEW YORK BUSINESS JOURNAL, September 30, 2021
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller AR’79, Ricardo Scofidio AR’55/Arch fac emeritus) | Featured | "20 Little New York Places You Should Know About," METALOCUS, October 9, 2021
Daniel Libeskind AR’70 | Featured | "To Hélène Binet, Photographing Architecture Is ‘a Form of Art’," THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 9, 2021
Andrew Skurman AR’76 | Featured | " The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Celebrates the 40th Annual Arthur Ross Awards," ICAA, October 12, 2021
Elizabeth Diller AR’79 | Article | "Elizabeth Diller Creates Light Show for Bill T. Jones’ 'Deep Blue Sea'," ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, October 11, 2021
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Catherine Seavitt Nordenson AR’94 | Featured | "2021 Haskell Award Recognizes Five Student Journals on Architecture," CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE NEWS, October 12, 2021
Elizabeth Graziolo AR’95 | Featured | "5 Sustainable Ideas that Made This Year’s Iconic Home the Greenest One Yet," ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, October 12, 2021
Aida Miron AR’04 | Lecture | Lecture II: The Heritage of The Socialist City: The Spoiled Splendid, Arts, Letters & Numbers, October 21, 2021, online
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DEADLINES APPROACHING
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The 2021 SOM Robert L. Wesley Award supports BIPOC undergraduate students enrolled in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, or engineering programs in the US. Deadline: November 1
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The 2021 SOM Research Prize is awarded to faculty-led interdisciplinary teams that address this year’s team of “Envisioning Responsible Relationships with Materiality”. Deadline: November 8
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ONGOING
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WORK-STUDY OPPORTUNITY
The School of Architecture is looking to hire several Public Programming Video Archivists. Eligible Cooper Union students are needed to assist in recording, editing, and publishing all public lectures and events during the academic year. Email Mauricio.Higuera@cooper.edu for more information. Deadline: Rolling
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Log 54: Coauthoring (Winter/Spring 2022) is a thematic issue guest edited by Ann Lui and Ana Miljački that recenters architectural discourse around the idea of coauthorship. Deadline: December 1, 2021
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International VELUX Award invites students of architecture to explore the role of daylight and sunlight as sources of energy in architecture and inspire new thinking. Deadline: April 15, 2022
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Lyceum Fellowship 2022 Competition: UNDERLAND challenges students to create a solution for the Friesenhahn Cave site, an important paleontological site outside of San Antonio and managed by Concordia University in Austin, Texas. Deadline: May 26, 2022
FREE GROCERIES
The College Student Pantry welcomes all college students in need of groceries. Open first and third Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Stop by 602 E 9th St in the East Village (corner of Ave B) for a free bag of groceries. Ongoing: 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 3PM.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Harvard Design Press seeks book proposals from researchers, practitioners, theorists, historians, and critics, among others. Deadline: Rolling
CALL FOR SUPPORT
Mophradat: Support the Arts in Beirut Prioritizing those already disadvantaged, and those who influence the community around them in a thoughtful manner, Mophradat offers resources to artists, visual thinkers and architects. Deadline: Rolling
CALL FOR ALLIES
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Write for Urban Omnibus! Shaped by a wide range of contributors In an effort to advance the collective work of city making, Urban Omnibus calls for students and professionals to submit article proposals. Deadline: Ongoing
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